Cairney Family History
Cairney Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ceithearnaigh
‘descendant of the foot soldier (Gaelic ceithearnach)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cairney
Name Distribution of Cairney Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cairney families
 5 - 7  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cairney families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cairney families
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204 - 406 69 - 203 |
1 - 68 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cairney census records
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Cairney Family Origin
Cairney Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Cairney
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Cairney Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Cairney census records
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Cairney Civil War Service Records
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